Unclassified road crash in Eastbourne BN21 on 21 November 1981 at 14:15 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Eastbourne at 14:15 on Saturday 21 November 1981. A 60-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Nov 1981
- Saturday, 14:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.77149, longitude 0.29115, in the BN21 postcode district and within the built-up area of Eastbourne.
Map of where the crash happened in Eastbourne
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198147SA10503
- Council area
- Eastbourne
- Police force
- Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 13 November 1984.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 13 November 1984
At the same spotRef 198447SA40645
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 21 August 2023
4 m awayRef 2023471343953
Slight
Audi A3 crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 9 July 2021
12 m awayRef 2021471064583
Slight
Mercedes E Class crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 20 March 2009
20 m awayRef 2009470901998
Slight
Volvo S40 crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 16 July 2008
32 m awayRef 2008470805477
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 25 February 1997
42 m awayRef 199747SA70141
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 60, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 198147SA10503 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Eastbourne road accident statistics for 1981.